The state does not encourage creating apple-based industries, such as pressing them in factories and selling juices. And everything it does with the international community is an attempt to displace Lebanese farmers from their land.
No serious merchant has asked to this day about the thousands of boxes of apples I have. The problem is land transport and the additional costs represented by the need to change the refrigerated truck between each country and the next, until reaching the Gulf, for security considerations that still exist.
The Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture has said it is working according to a road map aimed at exporting at least 100,000 tons of apples in 2026. This comes after President Joseph Ao…